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[Shoshanah]

14a of an epistle writer; girls name 7
p-u--i-e

8d horned animal; money (slang) 5
the answer i have is rhino but why is this slang for money??

thanks for help!

[dr b]

14a, pauline

[wallacia]

rhino is a slang term for money.

[dr b]

Don't know why on 8d, but the OED lists for rhino, "Money. (Often ready rhino.)" No explanation given as to where the term comes from.

from Brewer's:

Rhino

Ready money. (See Nose.) May not this explain the phrase �paying through the nose� (par le nez), that is, paying ready rhino. Rhino = money is very old.

Some, as I know,
Have parted with their ready rhino.

The Seaman's Adieu (1670).

[Jumbuck]

14a pauline

8d the slang dictionary I have says about it's etymology:

[17th Century] money, thus [19th Century] rhino-fat meaning wealthy

etymology unknown,; one suggestion , that it refers to the rhinoceros, then a fabulous creature 'worth it's weight in gold', implies a certain lexicographical desperation; the term moved from underground to general slang in mid-19th Century.